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Samuel Gompers discusses the need for unions in the above excerpt. Which labor union sought to empower workers in all industries, did not discriminate by race or gender, and was one of the first national unions?
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Oh All right Eight pushers We got Samuel Gamper letter
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to Judge Peter Gross cup Alright that's his paragraph here
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Unless he's read it over here man Let me to
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Perverting the lady from the typing children's on a modern
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capital bringing old seven on labor that I'm in trade
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Union live Little ones are crushed Samuel Gompers discusses the
- 00:28
need for unions in the above excerpt which labor union
- 00:31
sought to empower workers in all industries did not discriminate
- 00:35
by race or gender and was one of the first
- 00:37
national unions Okay Well the Knights of Labour were one
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of the first national unions while they weren't really knights
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Unfortunately they did have some chivalric tendencies for instance unlike
- 00:51
other unions that would come after they did not discriminate
- 00:54
against women or blacks or Jews or Catholics or whatever
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other minorities were out there And they did not focus
- 00:59
on specific industries like steel in a car making and
- 01:03
transporting stuff They also fought for the eight hour work
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day against child labor all while working to build better
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labor management relations Well the idea here was to have
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councils in which workers and managers would work together to
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govern the industry The night's dissolved after labor unions got
- 01:19
a lot of bad press from the wake of the
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Haymarket Square riot And well that was the end of
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that era of unions So the right answer here is
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be the Knights of Labor Loser bowl Well the National
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Labor Union existed prior to the Knights of Labor Unfortunately
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it was not as open to other ethnicities as the
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Knights and campaigned against Chinese immigration into the U S
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But the American Federation of Labor F ell on Lee
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admitted skilled white men The American Railways Union grew out
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of the Knights of Labor But as the name rather
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strongly implies it only focused on the yes railroad industry
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So the answer here it's be knights of flavor no
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